I know there has been alot of debate over this with grafting hops and cannabis and how it doesnt work. But bare with me here.
I realize that grafting one plant onto another plant works, however they are still 2 separate plants that are only growing off of one another and by definition NOT a chimera. Sometimes a chimera can sprout from the grafting site but this is rare and not likely. I looked a little harder and found that most hybrid plants that are engineered these days is by using micropropogation. This is where super tiny pieces of a plants tissues are used to grow clones. By taking tissues from 2 different plants there is much more potential of 2 plants growing together producing a chimera. From my understanding however you would be even MORE likely, in fact extremely likely of getting a chimera if you did this at the cellular level. If you can strip the walls off the cells and produce protoplasts you would be able to allow the cells to stick and share DNA between 2 genetically different cells.
So where im going with this is that you COULD genetically modify youre cannabis, either mixing strains or species, or go so much farther by combining a completely different plant and possibly result in a perennial plant that produces THC, a tree that produces THC, the possibilities are potentially endless. I however dont have the stuff or know how to do this, im going to do some looking into it and hopefully find a method that i can do this.
Im putting this out so hopefully to inspire someone who may be able to make more progress than myself.
I realize that grafting one plant onto another plant works, however they are still 2 separate plants that are only growing off of one another and by definition NOT a chimera. Sometimes a chimera can sprout from the grafting site but this is rare and not likely. I looked a little harder and found that most hybrid plants that are engineered these days is by using micropropogation. This is where super tiny pieces of a plants tissues are used to grow clones. By taking tissues from 2 different plants there is much more potential of 2 plants growing together producing a chimera. From my understanding however you would be even MORE likely, in fact extremely likely of getting a chimera if you did this at the cellular level. If you can strip the walls off the cells and produce protoplasts you would be able to allow the cells to stick and share DNA between 2 genetically different cells.
So where im going with this is that you COULD genetically modify youre cannabis, either mixing strains or species, or go so much farther by combining a completely different plant and possibly result in a perennial plant that produces THC, a tree that produces THC, the possibilities are potentially endless. I however dont have the stuff or know how to do this, im going to do some looking into it and hopefully find a method that i can do this.
Im putting this out so hopefully to inspire someone who may be able to make more progress than myself.
